Ornamental button.



. No." 689,669.- Patent ed Dec. I90

J. DERUS'. DRNAMENTAL BUTTON.

Applicaltion filed. May 31, 1901. J

(Ila Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DERUS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO CHARLESM. VOLLENDER, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

ORNAMENTA'L BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent No. 689,669, dated December24, 1901.

Application filed May 31, I901- To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, JOHN DERUs, a citizen of the United States, residingat Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Buttons; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in IOthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to badges or ornamental buttons adapted tobe worn on the lapel of a gentlemans garment or to be I 5 otherwisesecured to other garments; and it has for its object to provide certainimprovements whereby a picture, character, or omblem, which is usuallyhidden, may be suddenly exposed to view.

2o The invention consists of the novel devices and combination ofdevices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several vlews.

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation showing, on an enlarged scale, abutton designed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a section onthe line 00 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, butillustrating the different positions of the parts. Fig.

4 isa section on the line m w of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a section on the line a: 00 of Fig. 1.

As preferably constructed the body of the button is made up of a hollowsemispherical head l, a bifurcated or hollow stem 2, and a button orinner head 3. The exposed outer surface of the semispherical body 1 iscut away, as shown at 4, to leave an opening which has very much theappearance of an opened eye. A small crank-shaft 5 is loosely mountedtransversely of and in the sides of the body 1, with its crank port-ionscentrally located and pivotally connected to the inner end of a smallplunger 6,which works outward through the button 3 and is provided witha head 7.

A vibrating shutter 8, which has the form of a segment of a sphere,worksfreely but so closely within the semispherical surface of thebody'or head 1. The contracted sides of serial No. 62,537. (No model.)

this shutter 8 are rigidly secured to the ends of the crank-shaft 5. Alight coiled spring 9, which, as shown, is wound on a crank-shaft 5 andis secured thereto at one end and to the base portion of the head 1 atits other end, yieldingl'y holds said shutter 8, crank-shaft 5, and stem6 in the positions indicated in Figs.

1, 2, and 3. By pressing on the head 7 of the plunger 6 thevibratingshuiter 8 may be eas- 6o ily thrown into the position indicatedin Figs. 3 and 4, and when the pressure is removed from the said headthe parts will, under the action of the spring 9, quickly fly back totheir normal positions.

On the outer surface of the shutter 8 two different characters aremarked, one of which will be exposed to View when the shutter is in itsnormal posit-ion and another of which will be exposed to view when theshutter is moved into the position indicatedin Figs. 3 and 4. In thedrawings the said shutter is shown as provided with one character, whichwhen presented to view, as in Fig. 1, gives the appearance of an eyelooking through the opening 4. It is also shown as provided with thepicture of a person, which will be exposed to view through the opening 4when the shutter is removed from its normal position, as alreadyindicated. In some cases it may be desirable to leave blank that portionof the shutter 8 which is normally exposed to view.

' \Vhen the button is applied to the button hole in the lapel of thecoat, the thumb may be easily slipped behind the lapel and under thehead 7 of the plunger (5, so that the device may be manipulated withoutdisclosing the way in which the movements of the shutter areaccomplished.

It is important to note that the shutter may be operated by pressureapplied directly in line with the common axes of the head 1, button 3,and stem 2. Hence when the device is applied to the lapel of a coat theshutter may be operated either by pressing the head '7 of the stem 6directly forward or by pressing the head 1 directly rearward.

The device is of course capable of considerable modification within thescope of my invention. The badge itself may take various forms, anddifferent devices may be used for operating the shutter or vibratingpart which exposes to view a normally hidden object, image, figure, orcharacter.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with arigidly-connected hollow head, stem and button, said head having anopening in its exposed face, of a segmental shutter Working within saidhead and provided with one or more images, a spring yieldingly holdingsaid shutter in one extreme position, and a device for moving saidshutter into its other extreme position by pressure applied in thedirection of the common axes of said head, stem and button, involving afinger-piece or plunger working through said stem and button and movableaxially thereof, substantially as described.

2. The combination with the rigidly-connected hollow head 1, stem 2 andbutton 3, said head having the opening 4, of the segmental shutter 8movable within said head 1 and having one or more images marked thereon,the crank-shaft 5 to which said shutter is secured, pivotally connectingsaid shutter to said head, the operating plunger or fingerpiece 6connected to the crank of said crankshaft and working axially outwardthrough said stem 2 and button 3, and provided at its outer end With thehead 7, and the spring g connected at one end to said crank-shaft and atits other end to said head 1, which shutter is adapted to be movedagainst the tension of said spring, by pressure applied to said plunger6 in the direction of the common axes of said head 1, stem 2 and button3, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN DERUS.

Witnesses:

ELIZABETH KELIHER, F. D. MERCHANT.

